A Conversation with Allison Anderson and Ben Betts

Digital curation is emerging as a sound strategy in learning experience design to replace or enhance courses. It’s also a strategy for building community and a way to support informal learning and a backchannel. In this episode, I speak with Allison Anderson and Ben Betts, co-authors and editors of Ready, Set, Curate: 8 Learning Experts Tell You How.

Allison is a Chief Learning Strategist at Learning EcoStrategies. She has more than 20 years of experience as a learning leader in both higher education and the private sector. Ben leads the team at his startup, HT2 Labs, an R&D company for learning and performance technology. Ben is a thought-leader in Learning Technology with more than 15 years of experience and a doctorate where he studied the impact of gamification on adult social learning.

WE DISCUSS:

Defining digital curation

Difference between aggregation and curation

Why curation is a viable solution for workplace learning

Examples of how digital curation can be used: Imagination, Instruction, Integration and Implementation